#Superman Smashes the Klan

[thischristianguy]

Superman runs to Smallville in Gene Luen Yang’s “Superman Smashes the Klan”

He passes by the Lutheran church that has a verse on the sign

The verse Leviticus 19:34

What does that say?

“You must regard the foreigner who lives with you as the native-born among you. You are to love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.”

‭‭Leviticus‬ ‭19‬:‭34‬ ‭HCSB‬‬

Nice work there

Remember Superman is the tale of the immigrant and the child raised between two worlds. How is that impossible a tale to tell?

[son-neko-art]

Bwahahahah! It’s done! It’s finally done! This project that has taken every spare minute of my time is complete! Long story short. I love the ‘Superman Smashes The Klan’ DC comic! Enough to try to learn Gurihiru’s art style so that I could insert my favorite DC Power couple into the comic universe because they didn’t exist in it! Seems to be a theme with me lately. Any way,this was a labor of love and a challenge for me. I learned a lot studying Gurihiru’s style and also felt like I had so much more to learn by the end of it. I spent a long time on this so I’d love if any Supercorp fans wanted to have some back and forth on the subject. Also please read the original source material, it’s a great story and you won’t be sorry. I went into more detail on this version of the characters in my character design exercise I did of them previously. But just so you know the characters are kinda a combo of stuff I liked and didn’t like about the earliest incarnations of the characters. Here’s hoping I don’t notice any glaring mistakes after I post….

[shoot-i-messed-up]

DC we just got off the heels of a well received golden age inspired 1940s noir batman tv show, this is your chance to announce a standalone animated movie adaptation of Superman Smashes the Klan

While it’s set in 1946, the themes of immigration and xenophobia are SO RELEVANT to today. I literally love this comic so much, it might be my actual number one favorite piece of Superman media, and that is saying a LOT. Highly worth the read, if you want my recommendation!

In conclusion, PLEASE DC MY LIFE WILL BE YOURS.

[angelofalls]

Tried drawing a pose from "Superman smashes the Klan" # 1 from memory

Vs. The actual page the pose was from.

Eh I was close enough 🤣

[bobbinalong]

look at this child and know that somebody accused him of being possessed by a demon.

my literal actual son

[loislanessm]

— Superman and Lois by Gurihiru.

[cranes-menagerie]

...when I tell you that this might be my favorite superman story of all time

I'm not joking, as someone who came from a mixed family much like the Lees, I saw discrimination first hand. It was primarily directed towards my mother and though I never delt with the KKK first hand, back in 2016 when...he got elected I saw that she faced a lot of that. As we enter 2024 and another election cycle which means we either get stuck with one group of assholes or an even bigger group of assholes, I think the world needs to remember that characters like superman exists, hell even outside of fiction there are people who will fight tooth and nail for what's right. I read this book wanting an adaptation more similar to my adventures with Superman and not the edgy Christ figure government stooge of the usual ones, and boy this delivered on so many fronts.

It tackled stuff like how symbols of heroes are used by the completely wrong people

(a big example is the punisher skull being used in a lot of back the blue, police brutality imagery[double ironic considering Frank Castle fucking hates the police])

They treat superman's arc as an immigrant which I think is a fantastic choice and one I also use for man of tomorrow

AND GOD FUCKING DAMN IT DO I JUST LOVE THE PEOPLE'S HERO, MAN OF TOMORROW SUPERMAN

This book isn't just good, it's fucking fantastic. It gets the character right so well and I'm here for it.

[icedsodapop]

I love Batman, I really do, but Gene Luen Yang's take on Batman tho?

He's 👏🏼 right 👏🏼 and 👏🏼 he 👏🏼 should 👏🏼say 👏🏼 it 👏🏼

[the-girl-from-another-time]

I want more superhero movies that aren’t set in the present (like Wonder Woman and Captain America: The First Avenger).

I want a live-action adaptation of DC: The New Frontier that deals with the Cold War’s effect on people’s view of superheroes (and heroes’ views of themselves) in the 1950s.

I want a Justice League International movie set in the late 80s. Give me the big hair, the great music, and the messages about nuclear disarmament.

I want a Fantastic Four movie that’s grounded in the space race of the early 60s. Give me all the Cold War undertones.

I want a Superman Smashes the Klan adaptation that directly addresses racism and xenophobia in post-WWII America while also paying tribute to the evolution and legacy of Superman’s character.

I want a John Constantine movie that navigates his identity as a bisexual man during the AIDS crisis of the 80s and 90s.

I want a Cold War era spy thriller about Black Widow where she defects from the Soviets to the U.S.

Give me more period superhero films.

[tuxedosaurus]

For me, Superman Smashes the Klan is better than most X-Men stories because

“Asian girl & Superman connect over feeling forced to be a model minority” >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> “Kitty Pryde says the N-word with a hard R”

[camo-wolf]

[tomoleary]

Kyle Baker “Superman Smashes the Klan” #1 Variant Cover Painting Original Art (DC, 2019) Source

[son-neko-art]

I really enjoyed reading DC multiverse comic Superman Smashes the Klan. The story was great and the art was amazing! Gurihiru’s art is so appealing to look at and there are so many wonderful things about how he draws that I can’t begin to describe it.

That being said I wanted to study from the style so I gave myself a little homework assignment to see if I could try to emulate it a bit. I learned a lot! I decided for my assignment that I would try to draw the CW Supergirl’s Supergirl and Lena Luthor as close as I could in Gurihiru’s style and within the realm of the before mentioned Superman comicbook universe.

Also there isn’t a Supergirl in that comic so the appeal was to make her feel like she was from that time of 1946… though I decided to go with Lena and Kara Zor-El’s comic aliases names from back in the day rather than Kara Danvers and Lena Luthor…I guess to be truer to the earlier comic universe versions of them. When the two characters first met in the comics they were both living under aliases. Lena to avoid the shameful association with her criminal brother and Kara for obvious reasons.

Why model sheets? Well, What I wanted to do was make a three page comic within this universe and it’s style, however I was finding it difficult to draw a consistent looking character from panel to panel so I decided that the easiest option was to make some character model sheets with expressions. This way I can always refer back to a model sheet and see if I can even draw these characters in the first place consistently.

I took liberties with her outfit, Supergirl doesn’t show up in the actual old DC comics until later in the 1960s, so I hope the skirt length checks out for the 40s, heh. Anyway, I hope I did okay being a geeky artist.

[starkcapaccinos63]

Appreciate that Superman Smashes the Klan is basically like “oh, you can relate to these stories about aliens and robots and wizards and shit? Yeah? Then you can definitely relate to stories about other humans who don’t look like you.”

[idknwhatputhere]

ITS THE GRAYSONS !!!

[bobbinalong]

look at the way he's holding his mom's hand 😭😭